CHAPTER 9 



SCENIC ROADS AND PARKWAYS 



3:30 p.m., Monday, May 24 



The Chairman, Senator FARR. The average American spends two 

 months of his life behind the steering wheel of his automobile, not 

 counting his vacation, which may also be behind the wheel. On the 

 Federal level, no other domestic program spends more of our tax- 

 payers' money than does our highways program, paid for by the 

 motorist out of highway users' funds. 



Consequently, the American motorist is entitled to and he de- 

 serves to drive on a safe, well-designed and aesthetic highway. From 

 that highway, he is entitled to see "a more beautiful America." 



I hope that this Panel on Scenic Roads and Parkways will focus 

 its attention on some of the following questions: 



How do we satisfy the recreation desires of the traveler by car? 

 What do we mean by scenic highways, parkways, corridor pro- 

 tection, and scenic easements? 



What are the legal and financial devices to protect the scenic 

 corridor? How do we make sure that engineering principles in 

 highway design consider simultaneously safety, good engineering 

 standards, landscape design, and aesthetics? 



What can we do to cut down the estimated $100 million it now 

 costs the American taxpayers to clean up the litter on our road- 

 sides? 



What is now being done on national, State, and local levels to 

 develop scenic roads and parkways? 



After the Federal interstate system is completed in 1972, should 



Members of the Panel on Scenic Roads and Parkways were Sen- 

 ator Fred S. Farr (Chairman), George B. Hartzog, Jr., David R. 

 Levin, Kevin Lynch, Edward G. Michaelian, Senator Gaylord 

 Nelson, and Mrs. Ralph A. Reynolds. Staff Associate was Dudley 

 C. Bayliss. 



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